Meet the Cast of '9' in Eight Character Posters
This one just oozes with potential
Focus Features just sent over eight character posters depicting all nine of the main characters in the upcoming animated effort 9 from filmmakers Tim Burton (The Corpse Bride, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Nightwatch). For anyone that has already seen the trailers you already know this looks like it has the potential to be a fantastic animated film and dare I say give Pixar's Up a run for its money in the Best Animated Feature category come Oscar time?
The film takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where all humans are gone ond only a small community of stitchpunk beings have survived with 9 (voiced by Elijah Wood) at the center of it all. Along with a few others like him, 9 takes refuge from fearsome machines that roam the earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive, and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them in the first place. As they'll soon come to learn, the very future of civilization may depend on them.
Now is your chance to meet the characters you will come to know much better once 9 hits theaters on September 9th with a look at eight individual character posters with character information included.
For a larger look, all of the posters below can be found in our gallery right here.
Photo: Focus Features
Photo: Focus Features
Photo: Focus Features
Photo: Focus Features
Photo: Focus Features
Photo: Focus Features
Photo: Focus Features
Photo: Focus Features
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I am actually exremely excited about this movie! I usually enjoy anything that Tim Burton has a hand in. I am a little surprised Depp isnt doing a voice in this film, I do wish he was though.
I am liking the marketing that is going on with this movie. That its trailer appeared in front of "Transformers" is promising. I can tell it will be good: having the names of Tim Burton and Focus Features linked to it pretty much guarantees it. But for a little while I was worried it would go the way of recent sci-fi CGI films starring aliens ("Battle for Terra," "Delgo"), which opened so abysmally that all of last year's bombs looked like stunning successes in comparison. But now I can see "9" having the kind of success "Coraline" had (it was also a Focus Features film).
I can't wait for this. I thought Coraline was visually stunning, but boring.
Im so glad coheed and cambrias " Welcome Home" was chosen for the song in the trailer … one of my all time favourite bands :) !!!!!!!!!!
The trailer for this one looks fantastic. Really hope this lives up to expectations and makes big bucks!
STUNNING would fall short … am really pumped for this movie… i saw battle for terra and LOVED it… the marketing of that movie killed it… this movie has powerful names behind it Tim Burton is a visionary in the right sense of the word … though he is onboard only as a producer on this one this has all his markings…
love elijah wood … would pick him to save the world over keanu any day… this movie is going to be amazing… wonder what the sound track is going to be like…it needs to be very very strong.
I absolutely can not wait to see this film. I saw the short film this is based on nearly 4 years ago, and have been incredibly excited to see it move into the feature world.
However, it's infuriating to see that Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov are getting top billling. They had absolutely nothing to do with the vision and scope of this film. Shane Acker created this world on his own, and was nominated for the Best Short Film Oscar in 2006 because of it. I'm just hoping Tim and Timur both earned their Producer credits by participating in some way other than lending their names to the film's marketing campaign.
I love Tim Burton's movies and he's one of my favorite Directors, but I hope that people don't associate him as this movie's filmmaker or auteur. It's looking like this has already begun to happen, and that's wrong.
sorry for my bad english, but why is it on some of the posters there can be seen a dictionary? (or is it a bible?)
Woo, a ninth comment to save them!
@cecilia: I think you're referring to the encyclopedia used in the foreground of posters 1, 6, 8, and 9. Similar to doll face/mask used in posters 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9. The repetition is probably more of an advertisement tool than anything story related. Keep in mind that you wouldn't normally see all eight posters lined up like this.